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JAMES MYERS, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COAL-SCUTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,434, dated July 29, 1856.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MYERS, J r., of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Constructionof Coal-Scuttles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawing, making apart of this specification, said drawing beinga vertical section of my improvement..

My invention consists in having the body of the scuttle constructed inthe usual manner of sheet iron, and having a cast iron bottom providedwith a flanch at its edge, to which flanch the lower part of the body isriveted. The flanch of the cast iron bottom is sufficiently high to forma chamber at the bottom of the scuttle, of sufficient capacity toreceive the water which the coal contains, and which will of coursesettle therein by its own gravity.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I' will proceed to describe it.

A, represents the body of a coal scuttle, which is constructed of sheetiron, and in the usual manner.

B, represents a cast iron bottom. This bottom is formed of a concave ordish shaped plate having a flanch (o) projecting downward from its edge,said flanch forming the base of the scuttle. Around the edge of theplate (a), and projecting upward there is a flanch (c), which inconnection with the concave plate (a) forms a chamber at the bottom ofthe scuttle.

The sheet iron body A, is riveted at its lower end to the flanch (c), asclearly shown in the drawing (d) representing the rivets.

The coal scuttles now in use are usually constructed wholly of sheetiron by which great lightness (a desideratum) with sufficient strengthis given them, and, so far as the sides of the scuttle are concerned,wrought or sheet iron is best as not possessing the brittleness of castmet-al and consequently the sides, which are peculiarly exwithout itsdefects.

noticed, wear out by holes formed in their bottoms, which is not owingto the weight the bottoms have to carry but to the drawing and settlingin said bottoms of the moisture or wet contained in most or nearly allcoal, the water thus settling at the bot-tom of the scuttles causing thebottom to oxidiz'e or rust and it is well known that sheet or wroughtiron rapidly wears out by rust, its surface being subject to successivescaling, while cast iron is exempt from such rapid wear-it merelyrusting but not scaling and consequently not exposing a continuity offresh surfaces to rust which occasions such a rapid wear of sheet orwrought iron. Now my improvement retains the advantages of the ordinaryscuttle Its sides are equally light and exempt from fracture being ofthe same flexible material-sheet iron while 'its cast iron bottom,constructed as described, receives and holds the water that settles fromthe coal but does not wear away in holes by rust as the sheet ironbottoms, by scaling do, and supposing the cast iron bottom to be only ofthe same thickness of metal its durability and that of the scuttle (aswearing from rust of the bottom by water in the coal) would be at leastthree times greater than that of the ordinary sheet metal one, whilethere is no noticeable difference in the manufacturing expense of thetwo, and the cast iron bottom constructed as described with its flange(c) keeps the sides of the scuttle better in form -by reason of theinflexibility of the cast metal.

JAMEs MYERS, JR.

Witnesses:

WM. TUscH, J. W. CooMBs.

